Quangsheng #6

[gasman]

I pre-ordered my Quangsheng #6 from Matthew when I heard the 2nd batch were on their way. I was not disappointed - it is a great plane and after really only a very little fettling was producing very thin perfect shavings.
Having said that - I did not like the Chinese grasstree handles - so I spent a couple of hours with 2 small pieces of English walnut and was delighted with the result. I really do think it is now up there with my LN#5!

 

[Klaus Kretschmar]

Congrats on a fine plane. The rehandling is awesome! That looks just about perfect.

Klaus

 

[wizer]

Oh yes that makes it much nicer.

 

[woodbloke]

Nice job...I think that's a 'must do' mod for anyone buying a QS. I had a look at the No4 at YOKB and that's the thing that would change in the first instance - Rob

 

[Modernist]

I think you've started a trend. Very nice indeed.
I got one of the first NO 6's and I'll be doing the same. They were talking about non stained handles but obviously not yet.

 

[big soft moose]

Nice job...I think that's a 'must do' mod for anyone buying a QS.

I know this is going to sound like i'm possessed by the spirit of grimsdale but why ?

they are handles, you hold them - so long as they are comfortable what they look like is irrelevant to the performance of the plane.

I could see changing the handles if the suplied ones were uncomfortable or badly shaped or summat, but that doesnt seem to be the case and imo spending time changing them purely for aesthetics seems like a waste of time.

 

[Klaus Kretschmar]

I could see changing the handles if the suplied ones were uncomfortable or badly shaped or summat, but that doesnt seem to be the case and imo spending time changing them purely for aesthetics seems like a waste of time.

Hmm ... the eyes partizipate while taking a meal

Klaus

 

[jimi43]

Nice job...I think that's a 'must do' mod for anyone buying a QS.

I know this is going to sound like i'm possessed by the spirit of grimsdale but why ?

they are handles, you hold them - so long as they are comfortable what they look like is irrelevant to the performance of the plane.

I could see changing the handles if the suplied ones were uncomfortable or badly shaped or summat, but that doesnt seem to be the case and imo spending time changing them purely for aesthetics seems like a waste of time.

Moose oh moose oh moose!! :wink:

You can get from A to B in a Lada or an Aston Martin DB9....

I know which one I would rather drive!!!

I simply LOVE that walnut...it is very nice indeed....super job...

I might buy a little one of these just to do that with!!!

I would uses some lovely rosewood chair legs I have left....mmmm

Cheers...

Jim

 

[bugbear]

Nice job...I think that's a 'must do' mod for anyone buying a QS.

I know this is going to sound like i'm possessed by the spirit of grimsdale but why ?

they are handles, you hold them - so long as they are comfortable what they look like is irrelevant to the performance of the plane.

Indeed. But what joy?

Not all woodworking needs to be grim.

BugBear

 

[big soft moose]

Nice job...I think that's a 'must do' mod for anyone buying a QS.

I know this is going to sound like i'm possessed by the spirit of grimsdale but why ?

they are handles, you hold them - so long as they are comfortable what they look like is irrelevant to the performance of the plane.

I could see changing the handles if the suplied ones were uncomfortable or badly shaped or summat, but that doesnt seem to be the case and imo spending time changing them purely for aesthetics seems like a waste of time.

Moose oh moose oh moose!! :wink:

You can get from A to B in a Lada or an Aston Martin DB9....

I know which one I would rather drive!!!

true but if the lada had the same performance as the DB9 but just lacked the aesthetics, and you'd bought one for reasons of cost would you spend your time putting on body kit to try to make it look like a DB9, or would it be prefferable to spend the time tuning it and driving it

 

[gasman]

Interesting debate.... but actually this particular walnut came from a tree which my father-in-law and I felled and had planked 3 or 4 years ago and has been used for a whole variety of jobs since - a couple of which have been WIPs on this website like the mother-in-laws sewing box. So it has sort of sentimental value and I just thought that a plane of this quality deserved better then this Chinese grasstree which I did not like the feel of

 

[mr grimsdale]

...
You can get from A to B in a Lada or an Aston Martin DB9......

Hmm , good idea - a walnut knob on the gear stick, nobody will notice that it's still a Lada!

 

[frugal]

I must confess I am with Moose on this one, but then again I still have the plastic handles on my Stanley 4 and 5. Replacing the handles would take time that I would rather spend woodworking and I consider these planes to be work horses not show pieces.

 

[bugbear]

To all the people who want pure function, and nothing else, I say:

Look away now!

http://www.catharinekennedy.com/

BugBear (who thinks that's all rather fun)

 

[cambournepete]

It's extremely skillful and all that, but YUK!
Not on a plane, please... :shock:

 

[bugbear]

It's extremely skillful and all that, but YUK!
Not on a plane, please... :shock:

And yet it's traditional on guns, and certainly doesn't make 'em shoot better. I suspect there's some cultural conditioning in play.

BugBear

 

[wizer]

Well I like some of them. I'm not keen on the flowery patterns. But some of the more geometric stuff floats my boat.

 

[gasman]

Yes but surely it is only ornamental guns which get such treatment - or your best ones - you don't see jack Bauer with such a design on his arsenal.... and also you rarely see someone out in the forest with their LN or Clifton taking a few shavings for everyone to see!

 

[bugbear]

Yes but surely it is only ornamental guns which get such treatment - or your best ones

Best indeed...

http://www.purdey.com/guns/side-by-side/

As you say, this is not Jack Bauer's gun.

BugBear

 

[cambournepete]

Aren't they the sort they had a pair of on Top Gear a while back in the Overfinch Range Rover - and they each cost more than the RR, which was over £100K !?!?!?